• 2025

    • 45. Liu, Y., Zhang, J., Liu, Y., Dan, J., Wang, L., Liu, W.*, Zhang, L., Zheng, F., Du, H.*, Ge, B.*, Zhao, J-Z.*, Song, D.* Modifying the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction via disruption of ordered intercalation in a van der Waals magnet. Nano Letters 25 (11), 4621-4627 (2025).

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    • 44. Liu, W., He, X., Zhang, J., Zheng, F., Zhao, Y., Wu, R.*, Yang, J., Kläui, M., Hou, Y.* Two-dimensional rare-earth-based half-metals with topological bimerons. Nano Letters 24 (48), 15473-15480 (2024).

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      42. Lyu, B., Zhao, S., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., Zheng, F.*, Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Zang, J.*, Du, H.* Three-dimensional magnetization reconstruction from electron optical phase images with physical constraints. Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy 67 (11), 117511 (2024).

      41. Yang, L., Savenchko, A. S.*, Zheng, F.*, Kiselev, N. S.*, Rybakov, F. N., Han, X., Blügel, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Embedded skyrmion bags in thin films of chiral magnets. Advanced Materials 36 (36), 2403274 (2024).

      40. Song, D.*, Wang, W., Zhang, S., Liu, Y., Wang, N., Zheng, F., Tian, M., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Zang, J.*, Du, H.* Steady motion of 80-nm-size skyrmions in a 100-nm-wide track. Nature Communications 15, 5614 (2024).

      39. Ji, K., Schnedler, M., Lan, Q., Zheng, F., Wang, Y., Lu, Y., Eisele, H., Carlin, J.-F., Butte, R., Grandjean, N., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Ebert, Ph. Identification and thermal healing of focused ion beam-induced defects in GaN using off-axis electron holography. Applied Physics Express 17, 016505 (2024).

      38. Yang, T-Y., Gu, S-W., Zhang, Y-X., Zheng, F., Kong, D., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Wu, D., Ge, Z-H.*, Feng, J.*, Jin, L.* Pseudopolymorphic phase engineering for improved thermoelectric performance in copper sulfides. Advanced Materials 36 (7), 2308353 (2024).

  • 2023

    • 37. Zheng, F.*, Kiselev, N. S.*, Rybakov, F. N.*, Yang, L., Wen, S., Blügel, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Hopfion rings in a cubic chiral magnet. Nature 623, 718-723 (2023). 

      36. Kong, D., Kovacs, A.*, Charilaou, M., Zheng, F., Wang, L., Han, X.*, Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Direct observation of tensile-strain-induced nanoscale magnetic hardening. Nature Communications 14, 3963 (2023).

      35. Zheng, F.*, Migunov, V., Caron, J., Du, H., Pozzi, G., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Nanoscale three-dimensional charge density and electric field mapping by electron holographic tomography. Nano Letters 23 (3), 843-849 (2023).

      34. Li, L., Song, D.*, Wang, W.*Zheng, F., Kovacs, A., Tian, M., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Du, H.* Transformation from magnetic soliton to skyrmion in a monaxial chiral magnet. Advanced Materials 35 (16), 2209798 (2023).

  • 2022

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      32. Zheng, F.*, Kiselev, N. S.*, Yang, L., Kuchkin, V., Rybakov, F. N., Blügel, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Skyrmion–antiskyrmion pair creation and annihilation in a cubic chiral magnet. Nature Physics 18, 863-868 (2022).

      31. Zheng, F.*, Beleggia, M., Migunov, V., Giulio, P., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Electron-beam-induced charging of an Al2O3 nanotip studied using off-axis electron holography. Ultramicroscopy 241, 113593 (2022).

      30. Zhang, F., Qi, X., He, M., Zheng, F., Jin, L. *, Peng, Z., Chao, X., Yang, Z., Wu, D. * Contrasting roles of Bi-doping and Bi2Te3 alloying on the thermoelectric performance of SnTe. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 9, 5562 (2022).

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      28. Song, D.*, Zheng, F., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Prospect for measuring two-dimensional van der Waals magnets by electron magnetic chiral dichroism. Ultramicroscopy 234, 113476 (2022).

      27. Ge, Z-H., Li, W-J., Feng, J., Zheng, F., Jia, C-L., Wu, D.*, Jin, L.* Atomic-scale observation of off-centering rattlers in filled skutterudites. Advanced Energy Materials 12, 2103770 (2022).

  • 2021

    • 26. Zheng, F.*, Rybakov, F. N.*, Kiselev, N. S.*, Song, D., Kovacs, A., Du, H., Blügel, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Magnetic skyrmion braids. Nature Communications 12, 5136 (2021).

      25. Gu, W-H., Zhang, X-Y., Guo, J., Cai, J-F., Zhu, Y-K., Zheng, F., Jin, L.*, Xu, J., Feng, J., Ge, Z-H.* Realizing high thermoelectric performance in n-type SnSe polycrystals via (Pb, Br) co-doping and multi-nanoprecipitates synergy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 864, 158401 (2021).

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    • 24. Zheng, F.*, Kovacs, A.*, Denneulin, T., Caron, J., Weßel, T., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Magnetic field mapping using off-axis electron holography in the transmission electron microscope. Journal of Visualized Experiments 166, e61907 (2020).

      23. Zheng, F.*,  Caron, J., Migunov, V., Beleggia, M., Pozzi, G., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Measurement of charge density in nanoscale materials using off-axis electron holography. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 241, 146881 (2020).

      22. Zheng, F.*, Pozzi, G., Migunov, V., Pirker, L., Remskar, M., Beleggia, M., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Quantitative measurement of charge accumulation along a quasi-one-dimensional W5O14 nanowire during electron field emission. Nanoscale 12, 10559-10564 (2020).

      21. Wang, Y., Schnedler, M.*, Lan, Q., Zheng, F., Freter, L., Lu, Y., Breuer, U., Eisele, H., Carlin, L. -F., Butte, R., Grandjean, N., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Ebert, Ph.* Interplay of anomalous strain relaxation and minimization of polarization changes at nitride semiconductor heterointerfaces. Physical Review B 102, 245304 (2020).

      20. Song, D., Wang, L., Wang, W., Zheng, F., Tang, J., Wang, S., Zhu, C., Caron, J., Kovacs, A., Liu, Z., Mandrus, D., Tian, M., Du, H.*, Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Robust nature of the chiral spin helix in CrNb3S6 nanostructures studied by off-axis electron holography. Physical Review B 102, 064432 (2020).

      19. Guo, J., Zhang, Y-X., Wang, Z-Y., Zheng, F., Ge, Z-H.*, Fu, J.*, Feng, J.* High thermoelectric properties realized in earth-abundant Bi2S3 bulk via carrier modulation and multi-nano-precipitates synergy. Nano Energy 78, 105227 (2020).

  • 2019

    • 18. Jiang, J., Sun, X., Chen, X., Wang, B., Chen, Z., Hu, Y., Guo, Y., Zhang, L., Ma, Y., Gao, L.*, Zheng, F., Jin, L., Chen, M., Ma, Z., Zhou, Y., Padture, N. P., Beach, K., Terrones, H., Shi, Y., Gall, D., Lu, T-M., Wertz, E., Feng, J.*, Shi, J.* Carrier lifetime enhancement in halide perovskite via remote epitaxy. Nature Communications 10, 4145 (2019).

      17. Wu, D., Chen, X., Zheng, F.*, Du, H., Jin, L.*, Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Dislocation evolution and migration at grain boundaries in thermoelectric SnTe. ACS Applied Energy Materials 2, 2392-2397 (2019).

      16. Wang, L-M.*, Qdemat, A., Petracic, O., Kentzinger, E., Rücker, U., Zheng, F., Lu, P-H., Wei, X-K., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Brückel, T. Manipulation of dipolar magnetism in low-dimensional iron oxide nanoparticle assemblies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21, 6171-6177 (2019).

  • 2018

    • 15. Zheng, F., Rybakov, F. N., Borisov, A. B., Song, D., Wang, S., Li, Z-A., Du, H.*, Kiselev, N. S.*, Caron, J., Kovacs, A., Tian, M., Zhang, Y., Blügel, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Experimental observation of chiral magnetic bobbers in B20-type FeGe. Nature Nanotechnology 13, 451-455 (2018).

      14. Singh, G.*, Bucker, R., Kassier, G., Barthelmess, M., Zheng, F., Migunov, V., Kruth, M., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Purcell, S. T., Dwayne Miller, R. J. Fabrication and characterization of a focused ion beam milled lanthanum hexaboride based cold field electron emitter source. Applied Physics Letters 113, 093101 (2018).

      13. Ge, Z-H.*, Zhang, Y-X., Song, D., Chong, X., Qin, P., Zheng, F., Feng, J.*, Zhao, L-D.* Excellent ZT achieved in Cu1.8S thermoelectric alloys through introducing rare-earth trichlorides. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6 (29), 14440-14448 (2018).

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  • 2017

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      10. Ge, Z-H., Song, D., Chong, X., Zheng, F.*, Jin, L., Chang, C., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Qin, P., Feng, J.*, Zhao, L-D.* Boosting the thermoelectric performance of (Na, K) co-doped polycrystalline SnSe by synergistic tailoring of the band structure and atomic-scale defect phonon scattering. Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 (28), 9714-9720 (2017).

      9. Li, Z-A.*, Zheng, F., Tavabi, A., Caron, J., Jin, C., Du, H., Kovacs, A., Tian, M., Farle, M., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Magnetic skyrmion formation at lattice defects and grain boundaries studied by quantitative off-axis electron holography. Nano Letters 17 (3), 1395-1401 (2017).

      8. Jin, C., Li, Z-A.*, Kovacs, A., Caron, J., Zheng, F., Rybakov, F. N., Kiselev, N. S.*, Du, H.*, Blügel, S., Tian, M., Zhang, Y., Farle, M., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E. Control of morphology and formation of highly geometrically confined magnetic skyrmions. Nature Communications 8, 15569 (2017).

  • 2016

    • 7. Wu, D., Zhao, L-D., Zheng, F., Jin, L., Kanatzidis, M. G., He, J.* Understanding nanostructuring processes in thermoelectrics and their effects on lattice thermal conductivity. Advanced Materials 28 (14), 2737-2743 (2016).

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  • 2015

    • 5. Wu, H., Zheng, F., Wu, D., Ge, Z-H., Liu, X., He, J.* Advanced electron microscopy for thermoelectric materials. Nano Energy 13, 626-650 (2015).

  • 2014

    • 4. Wu, D., Zhao, L-D., Hao, S., Jiang, Q., Zheng, F., Doak, J. W., Wu, H., Chi, W., Gelbstein, Y., Uher, C., Wolverton, C., Kanatzidis, M. G., He, J.* Origin of the high performance in GeTe-based thermoelectric materials upon Bi2Te3 doping. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (32), 11412-11419 (2014).

      3. Pei, Y-L., Wu, H., Wu, D., Zheng, F., He, J.* High thermoelectric performance realized in a BiCuSeO system by improving carrier mobility through 3D modulation doping. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (39), 13902-13908 (2014).

      2. Wu, H., Zhao, L-D., Zheng, F., Wu, D., Pei, Y-L., Tong, X., Kanatzidis, M. G.*, He, J.* Broad temperature plateau for thermoelectric figure of merit ZT>2 in phase-separated PbTe0.7S0.3Nature Communications 5, 5155 (2014).

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